An international research team involving the German Primate Center—Leibniz Institute for Primate Research (DPZ), Hannover ...

New research finds that brain development is not linear. There are distinct phases with unique characteristics.

Discover how the brain’s structural networks evolve in five distinct phases across the human lifespan, from childhood to late ...

Researchers around the world are studying how the human brain achieves its extraordinary complexity. A team at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim and the German Primate Center—Leibniz ...

According to the researchers: Childhood brain topology reaches a turning point at age 9, transitioning to the adolescent phase. The adolescent phase lasts right up to age 32, on average. In the early ...

Rather than thinking that adolescence ends at 18, groundbreaking brain research has shown that critical brain developmental ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have reached a milestone in an ambitious initiative to chart how the many types of brain cells emerge and mature from the earliest embryonic and fetal stages until ...

Just a few weeks after conception, stem cells are already orchestrating the future structure of the human brain. A new Yale-led study shows that, early in development, molecular “traffic cops” known ...

A team of researchers at the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH), has reconstructed for the ...

Scientists identified cellular metabolism and energy signaling as a central factor connecting genetic and environmental ...

A new brain implant stands to transform human-computer interaction and expand treatment possibilities for neurological ...